Yes, thank you. I was able to see the manifest myself. Maria mailed it to me from Ancestry.com. The problem is that we don't know where "Pud" is in Italy.

Alfonso is my mystery ancestor. I have all kinds of records on the guy. I have his hospital records, his marriage application, and his his naturalization papers. All of these records list "Italy" as his birthplace. No city of origin was ever recorded. Pud is all I have.

I have a variety of birthdates for Alfonso. I believe the most reliable are the earliest records.

His petition for naturalization has his birthdate as March 22, 1870. There was no declaration of intent because he was a minor.

His marriage application has his birthdate as 1871.

His 1900 Philadelphia census record has his birthdate as December 1871.

The truth is probably somewhere close to one of those dates.

(Incidently, Alfonso went by the name Frank fairly often. Francesco must have been his middle name. )

His wife, Angelina/Angela Caromano is said to have come from Abruzzi. Her father was Antonio Caromano. I have his naturalization papers also. No city of origin is given. His manifest is on the Castle Gardens site also.

During the mass emigration from Italy during the century between 1876 to 1976, the U.S. was the largest single recipient of Italian immigrants in the world. However, their impact was not as great as countries like Argentina and Brazil. That was due to the fact that hundreds of thousands of immigrant...

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